Buckle the fuck in this is going to take a few posts. TLDR; This is a fascist manifesto. It's a fascist manifesto. Not "like a fascist manifesto" or "a fashy manifesto". This is a fascist manifesto.
This is fascist trash. It’s page after page of extolling the death cult of the hero that underlies the fascist worldview while shitting on women, anyone the author perceives as weak, and a materialist understanding of history and economics. The author is constantly telling on themselves as someone who is violent, untrustworthy, unsafe to be around, and who would be the ideal wrecker and assassin for the pigs.
To live as a rebel, as a self-willed anarchist revolutionary, requires a great deal of will, determination and spirit in the face of dizzying odds. Thus, one essential aspect of developing an insurrectional practice is the transformation of oneself into such a spirited, willful being. Such a transformation does not take place through therapy but through attacking the social order both in its manifestations in the world and in oneself and one’s relationships. An uncompromising cruelty may prove essential to this task, because there are so many chains to be broken, so many limits to be destroyed. As one comrade has said, the individual quest is “the appropriation of everything that has been subtracted from him through family, school, institutions, roles, in order to find his specificity, totality, universality, lost... in the process of domestication and the construction of symbolic culture.” So the point is to make the decision to take one’s life back in its totality, a decision that requires just the sort of ferocity that will be necessary to demolish this society. And such a decision will transform all one’s relationships, demanding a clarity that will leave no room for submission to the demands of social protocol, disrespectful tolerance or pity for those who fear the energy of unchanneled desire more than its suppression. In making this decision (and the decision is only truly made as one acts to realize it), one is completely rejecting the logic of submission that dominates most relationships.
This is the California Self-Helpification of revolution. This is a demand for meaning and purpose, not a call for change.
in order to find his specificity, totality, universality
What does this even mean? We're all inextricably enmeshed in our cultures.
But some of us burn with an energy that goads us towards something else, something different. In our burning we suffer anguish from every humiliation that the present world imposes on us. We cannot resign, accept our place and content ourselves with just getting by. Moved to decisive action by our passion, against all the odds we come to view life differently — or more precisely, to live differently.
Big energy. I'm special, I'm different, I don't deserve this, I'm not like the other girls, wake up sheeple, ecetera ecetera.
a life projectuality that aims toward the destruction of the social order
The social order is inevitably defined by the economic order but go on
Our actions are still tentative, not full of ourselves, but stepped into lightly with a readiness to withdraw at the least sign risk or danger. Contrarily, the development of an anarchist projectuality requires that one immerse oneself into what one does without holding back, without hedging one’s bets.
This sounds like sigma grindset financial advice. You're holding yourself back, bro. Gorilla mindset, bro! Genetically different bro!
The point is to live without measure. Longer chains are chains nonetheless.
This is a complete abstraction of freedom. The chains that lie upon me are food scarcity, lack of medical care, patriarchal systems of violence, capitalist economics. I'm not looking for internal self-actualization, man. I can't move out of this state without dying because I'd lose my health insurance.
One reads in Nietzsche of amor fati.
Making your first reference to Nietzche in a leftist call to action is a bad choice. Nietzche was a loser.
The very opposite of the fatal resignation demanded by the logic of submission, amor fati is that love of fate as a worthy adversary that moves one to courageous action. It springs from the willful self-confidence that develops in those who put all of their substance into what they do, say or feel. Here regrets melt away as one learns to act as one wills; mistakes, failures and defeats are not devastations, but situations from which to learn and move on in the perpetual tension toward the destruction of all limits.
A "worthy adversary"? This is just fashy "Everyone is trained to be a hero" shit. This is all abstract and anti-material. Mistakes lead to getting tortured or caged. Failures lead to starvation for you and your dependents. Defeats leave you physically injured, physically deprived, physically dead. This might as well just be the Hakagure.
“Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily.
Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should
meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and
swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into
the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken
to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs,
dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s
master. And every day without fail one should consider himself
as dead.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Same energy. Be prepared for death at every moment so you will be ready to be a hero at every moment. This was the basic core of Imperial Japanese fascism. The guy who wrote it was a poser. I don't think he ever swung a sword in anger in his life. It's very funny that the author is demanding the same basic attitude towards action that the Samurai, a class of killers and thieves whose self description was "Servant" adhered to.
At this point, the insurgent has ceased to merely react to the codes, rules and laws of society and has come to determine her actions on his own terms without regard for the social order.
This is just re-phrasing Nietzche.
Beyond tolerance and everyday politeness, finished with tact and diplomacy
The author is very fixated on being an anti-social asshole that no one around them can like or trust. I find this to be a through-going thread in 21st century individualist anarchism. There's this contempt for the basic forms of courtesy, hospitality, trust, and reliability that make society possible in the smallest and most fundamental units. People go on and on about freedom from the basic behaviors that allow people to trust each other at all. That isn't liberation. That's dying alone in the forest because no one is willing to turn their back to you.
Obviously, the various modes of relating that this society puts into place for us to fall into cannot fulfill this desire. Tepid “love” partnerships, “friendships” based on the camaraderie of mutual humiliation and disrespectful tolerance and the daily encounters of no substance that maintain the banality of survival — these are all based on the logic of submission, on merely accepting the mediocrity this reality we must destroy offers. They have nothing to do with projectual desire for the other.
I’m pretty sure the author could replace “Logic of Submission” with “Slave Morality”, delete this entire document, and just recommend Nietzche. And this is, again, all an abstraction of freedom. We’re alienated and lonely and miserable because the actual physical layout of roads and cities isolates and alienates us and the day to day labor needed to pay for food is calculated to be crushingly exhausting and dispiriting. This isn’t an individual choice anyone is making.
the decision to live projectually as a revolutionary
This is really core to what’s going on here. That isn’t a decision. People don’t get to just decide things in abstract severed from the web of life and culture around them. As much as it seems to erk hyper-individualist anarchists “No man is an Island” and we really are all part of the culture and society that we are a part of.
The relations that the decision to live projectually as a revolutionary and an anarchist moves one to seek are relations of affinity, of passion, of intensity, varieties of living relations that help one to build life as desire moves her.
This describes an emotionally immature person chasing that honeymoon energy from a new relationship.
Because revolutionary anarchists of all types have recognized the freedom of every individual to determine how they will live on their own terms to be a central aim of anti-authoritarian revolution
Whenever individualists describe what this freedom means in practice it always ends up being “I have the unlimited right to be a huge dangerous untrustworthy asshole but also have people put up with me at the same time.”
Also, putting “Free Love” (a strange term to use in 2024) in front of bread and shelter is a choice that says a lot about the author’s economic position, social position, goals, and perception of the needs and limits of others. We figured that out when the hippies all turned out to be boomer reactionaries and “Free Love” was revealed to mean free from respect for others, free from consequences, free from reciprocity and mutual kindness.
The struggle against the logic of submission begins with the struggle of individuals to create the lives and relations they desire. In this context, free love means precisely the freedom of each individual’s erotic desires from the social and moral restrictions that channel them into a few specific forms useful to society so that each may create the way she loves as he sees fit in relation to those she may love. Such a liberation opens the way for an apparently infinite variety of possible loving and erotic relations. Most people would only want to explore a few of these, but the point of such liberation is not that one must explore as many forms of erotic desire as possible, but that one has the possibility to really choose and create ways of loving that bring him joy, that expand her life and goad him to an ever increasing intensity of living and of revolt.
People aren’t fucking because they’re poor, exhausted, depressed, and physically isolated from each other. There’s no “logic” in this, this is the basic logistics of fucking. People who are tired and sad don’t fuck.
that expand her life and goad him to an ever increasing intensity of living and of revolt.
There’s a thoroughgoing sub-text of contempt for the meek, the boring, the simple, the cowardly, and the satisfied. Very in keeping with Nietzsche's hatred of weakness, and in turn fascistic hatred of weakness. Those who are not heroes are unworthy of life.
One of the most significant obstacles presently facing us in this area is pity for weakness and neurosis.
Oh yeah literally in the next sentence jesus fuck just put a swastika in the header and save us all some time.
But when these individuals act on their desires, if another who is less sure of themselves is unnerved or has their feelings hurt, they are expected to change their behavior to accommodate the weakness of this other person.
Yes you do actually have to be considerate of the feelings of others. The author is sprinting in to “No gods no bedtimes” territory by just… refusing to even consider compassion? I’m not sure what to call this. And given that they’re talking about this in relation to sexual desire with someone who is presumably a partner this really reads like a call to sexual violence.
The point is to transform ourselves into strong, daring, self-willed, passionate rebels — and, thus, also into strong, daring, self-willed, passionate lovers — and this requires acting without guilt, regret or pity.
Yup. There’s the fascist cult of heroism for heroism’s sake. Applying that ethos of heroism to sex is a rallying call for sexual violence
Compassion — that feeling with another because one recognizes one’s own condition in theirs — can be a beautiful and revolutionary feeling, but pity — which looks down at another’s misery and offers charity and self-sacrifice, is worthless for creating a world of strong individuals who can live and love as they choose.
This is just fascism.
It is only in the realm of economy — of goods for sale — that greed and generosity contradict each other. In the realm of uncommodified feelings, passions, desires, ideas, thoughts and dreams, greed and generosity go hand-in-hand. The more one wants of these things, the more expansive one must be in sharing them. The more generous one is with them, the more one will have. It is the nature of these things to be expansive, to seek to broaden all horizons, to take more and more of reality into themselves and transform it.
This is completely meaningless tosh. Being in a relationship, of any kind, with this person sounds like a serious problem both for the individual and the community.
It has no place for our weaknesses, no time for neurotic self-pity or meagerness.
Again, basal fascism.
We live in a world in which the majority of encounters and interactions involve work and commodity exchange. In other words, the dominant forms of relating are economic, based on the domination of survival over life.
Marx failed to consider
We live in a world in which the majority of encounters and interactions involve work and commodity exchange. In other words, the dominant forms of relating are economic, based on the domination of survival over life. In such a world, it is no surprise that the concept of friendship no longer has much value. Today, neither the daily interactions of one’s “communities” (these strange, disconnected “communities” of family, school, work) nor the chance encounters (at the market, on the bus, at some public event) have much chance of sparking a real and intense interest in another, an impassioned curiosity to discover who they are what we might be able to create with them. The common thread that runs through these not so varied interactions and encounters is that they originate in the operations of domination and exploitation, in the social order that immiserates our lives an to which most people grudgingly submit.
This person strikes me as deeply, deeply disappointed with life’s little meandering banalities, the simplicity of ordinary people, and so on. Having lived the experience they’re extolling, the experience of bipolar mania, it’s a fucking nightmare. There’s nothing true or authentic or real about chasing sensation and noise and excitement until you shatter and the shards of you injure everyone around you.
The common thread that runs through these not so varied interactions and encounters is that they originate in the operations of domination and exploitation, in the social order that immiserates our lives an to which most people grudgingly submit.
I really don’t know what this person expects to come of liberation, because I think they would not be satisfied with pancakes and cartoons sitting on the couch in your jammies on sunday morning. Again, fascistic cult of heroism for it’s own sake.
Thus, interactions between friends at this time seem to be mostly dominated by comic mockery and various forms of one-upmanship.
The author is describing toxic masculinity, and given the way they’ve been ranting they’re probably the sources of most of the comic mockery and various forms of one-upmanship as they try to live this ridiculous heroism thing they’ve got going. Frankly, they probably don’t have any friends because they’re dangerous and untrustworthy.
By our own will, we redefine our commonalities and our differences, clarifying them through the alchemy of struggle and revolt, basing them on our own passions and desires.
So you would say that you have achieved, how would we call this, a “Triumph of the Will?”
This makes the form that friendship tends to take in this society completely unpalatable: to simply tolerate another out of loneliness and call this one friend — how pathetic!
There is a really deep core of misanthropic hatred of regular old folks in this person’s thought.
Starting from that sense of pride that moved us to rebel, that point of selfish dignity that will not tolerate further humiliation, we seek to build our friendships upon the greatness we discover in each other — joy, passion, wonder sparked both by what we share in common and by how we differ.
This person is seriously dangerous and a threat to everyone around them. The way they’re obsessed with humiliation, with pride, shows that they are not proud, that they are rather deeply insecure and looking to prove their masculinity (I chose masculinity on purpose. Whatever their gender expression is masculinity is their god) and heroic power through violence directed at those they think are safe targets – The meek, the pathetic, the people they despise as holding them back. None of this screed thus far has been directed towards the people who hold the whip, who carry the sword, who sign the paycheck. It’s all ranting about the people standing on either side of us, our fellow workers, and identifying the sources of subjugation in these workers being too boring for the extremely cool and interesting protagonist author.
Rebellion sparks fire in the hearts of those who rise up, and this fire calls for relationships that burn: loves, friendships, and, yes, even hatreds that reflect the intensity of rebellion. The greatest insult we can give another human being is to merely tolerate them, so let us pursue friendships with the same intensity with which we pursue love, blurring the boundaries between them, creating our own fierce and beautiful ways of relating free of that logic of submission to mediocrity imposed by the state and capital.
Being stuck in a room with this person for any amount of time would be agonizing.
evoking the intense passions of the strong-willed.
There’s that “willpower” again, which is hilariously a protestant Christian myth used to justify hierarchical systems of oppression by assigning willpower to middle class strivers and denying willpower to the dirty morally bankrupt working poor. This person is a fascist.
It finds passion dangerous and destructive since such intensity of feeling is, after all, opposed to the cold logic of power and profit.
If this person really wanted to understand what they’re fetishizing they’re more than welcome to take my bipolar disorder on a test drive for a month.
There is no place in this society for passionate reason or the reasonable focusing of passion.
What does this even mean? I really want to know what they feel they’re being kept from doing. Do they really really want to start a rock band? Are they extremely intense about birding?
The next paragraph kinda-sorta identifies structural racism and patriarchy as systems of oppression but does so in a largely anti-materialist way that’s pretty useless for either analysis or action.
All this rhetoric is so empty. It’s completely vibe based and the vibe is “I don’t wanna!” in the most childish sense.
The circuses that we are offered with our bread present us with spectacles like none ever seen before. Exotic places, strange creatures with magical powers, fantastic explosions, battles and miracles, all these are offered for our entertainment, keeping us glued to the spectator’s seat, our activity limited to occasionally flicking a button — not unlike the primary activity in increasing numbers of jobs. So “the impossible” this society offers us is nothing more than spectacular special effects on a screen, the drug of virtuality numbing us to the misery of the reality that surrounds us, in which possibilities for really living are closing down.
I thought they were going to start talking about the “Spectacle” of the Situationists but this is just whining about MCU slop. Which, don’t get me wrong, I love whining about MCU slop.
If we are to escape this miserable existence, our revolt must be precisely against social reality in its totality. Realism within this context becomes acceptance. Today when one speaks sincerely of revolution — of striving to overturn the present reality in order to open the possibility of concrete, self-determined human activity and individual freedom — one is being unrealistic, even utopian. But can anything less put an end to the present misery?
I really don’t understand what “individual freedom” they feel the lack but I suspect if they ever tried to define it it’d end up being something incredibly banal and vibes based. What does “against social reality in it’s totality” even mean? They’re really not identifying any existing structures or systems that so upsets them.
This is not the declaration of a strong individuality making itself the center of a revolt against the world of domination and alienation, but rather an admission of resignation, a retreat into merely tending one’s own garden as the monster lumbers on.
No shit. Most leftists don’t want to be part of a fascist death cult.
They not only fail to threaten the world of capital and the state; they actually ease the pressure on those in power by providing voluntary social services under the guise of creating “counter-institutions”.
Fascistic contempt for weakness again. Calling yourself an anarchist then ranting about mutual aid is a choice.
A more activist form of realism also exists. It is found in a perspective that ignores the totality of the present reality, choosing instead to see only its parts. Thus, the reality of alienation, domination and exploitation is broken down into categories of oppression which are viewed separately such as racism, sexism, environmental destruction and so on.
Oh yeah here we go. More empty head idealistic tosh.
This person is really screaming at liberals in a way that is completely incomprehensible to liberals and marks them out as a huge threat and wrecker to anyone who actually does stuff.
Rather than starting from the world as it is, one may choose to start from the will to grasp her life as his own.
Fascist hero cult. Take a drink.
Thus, it is an obstruction to an attempt to freely determine how one will live and relate. Nonetheless, up to now, men have been granted more leeway in asserting their will within these roles than women, a reasonable explanation for why more anarchists, revolutionaries and outlaws have been men than women. Women who have been strong, rebellious individuals have been so precisely because they have moved beyond their femininity.
Half right. The author fails to consider that most women would recognize the kind of will to power go fast and break things fascist “revolutionary” they idolize to be a threat.
Since male domination is not adequately explored as an aspect of total domination, even by anarcha-feminists, the rhetoric of radical feminism frequently takes on a style similar to that of national liberation struggles.
I would love to know what this person’s education has been like. Like, what material did they read to come up with this?
So those of us who want an expansive existence, life lived to the full, are moved to take action, to attack the institutions that compel us to live such petty lives.
Please stop writing and go throw yourself heroically at the swords of your oppressors this is getting really boring.
Moved to take back our lives and make them wellsprings of the marvelous, we inevitably encounter repression. Everyday, hidden mechanisms of repression operate to prevent revolt, to guarantee the submission that maintains the social order. The necessities of survival, the underlying awareness of always being watched, the barrage of prohibitions that meet the eyes on signs or in the person of a cop, the very structure of the social environments in which we move, these are enough to keep most people in line, eyes to the ground, minds empty of all except the petty worries of the day. But when one has had enough of this impoverished existence and decides that there must be more, that she cannot tolerate another day in which life is diminished even more, the repression ceases to be so subtle. The spark of revolt has to be suppressed; the maintenance of the social order requires it.
This person is clearly aware of a lot of core Left ideas and theories, but somehow interprets them from the position of a GTA protagonist. Like they’re describing the panoptican, self-surveillance, chilling effect, all this pretty basic Leftist theory, but it’s all “me me me” whining.
I have always considered the question of security a simple one, a matter of practical intelligence that anyone should be capable of figuring out.
This is rubbish. Security culture is incredibly difficult to understand and hugely disruptive to actually apply in one’s life. Most people flat out do not understand how state police and intelligence services gather information.
By developing relations of affinity, on decides with whom one can act. There is no need to say a word about an action to anyone who is not involved in it. This is basic and should go without saying for anyone who decides to action against domination. But such practical intelligence has no need to enshroud itself in an atmosphere of suspicion and secretiveness where every word and every thought must be watched, in which even the words of defiance are considered too great a risk. If our practice takes us there, we have already lost.
The author is a cop. Affinity groups are fine for small ad-hoc actions. If you’re going to throw the French out of Algeria or the British out of Ireland you need air-tight, iron-clad hierarchical cell-structure units that allow coordinated action but can survive the annihilation of entire branches of the structure. Affinity groups are fine for spray painting and throwing bricks at bank windows. It’s not sufficient for direct combat against military and paramilitary forces and never has been. Idk how the fuck the author thinks anyone would trust them with high explosives or anti-aircraft missiles.
If our practice takes us there, we have already lost.
That’s cause you’re advocating for a fascist death cult, not a revolution. The author cares more about being the main character than they do about winning.
In the context of illegal activity, security is essential. But even in this context, it is not the top priority.
The author is, again, a cop. The cops could not ask for a better agent, spy, wrecker, or assassin than someone who believes these things and lives accordingly.
It is obvious that one shouldn’t leave evidence or speak to the police, that one should take the due precautions to avoid arrest — a situation that would certainly not enhance one’s struggle for a full free life.
It is not at all, in any way, obvious and people with a great deal of training and experience fuck up and get their entire cell exterminated all the time. That’s a huge part of why security is so important; When someone inevitably gets drunk at a bar and starts talking, or trusts their partner and discusses trauma not knowing their partner is a cop, the cell needs to be compartmentalized so it can be cut free before the entire system is mapped and annihilated.
As an example of why this is absurd on it’s face go refresh yourself on how the Metropolitan Police completely infiltrated the London activist scene and had cops in significant places, including in fake relationships with activists, for decades.
The caution necessary to avoid arrest does not reflect the sort of life and relationships we want to build.
It’s very telling that this person is concerned with arrest. Not torture, not extermination. Not your children being thrown in to the foster system, your elderly parents dying on the street, your allies being taken down when you narc on them because you’re a twit.. Mere arrest. That’s the scope of state violence that they see as a threat.
When anarchists begin to see security as their top priority — as a “culture” that they must develop — paranoia comes to dominate relationships. Anarchist conferences are set up with levels of bureaucracy and (let’s call things what they are) policing that too closely parallels what we are trying to destroy. Suspicion replaces comradeship and solidarity. If someone doesn’t look or dress right, he finds herself ostracized, excluded from involvement. Something vital has been lost here — the reason for our struggle. It has vanished behind the hard armor of militancy, and we have come to be the mirror image of our enemy.
The anarchist struggle slips into this joyless, paranoid rigidity when it is not carried out as an attempt to create life differently, joyfully, intensely, but is rather treated as a cause to which one is to sacrifice oneself. One’s struggle then becomes moral, not a question of desire, but of right and wrong, good and evil, conceived as absolute and knowable. Here is the source of much of the rigidity, much of the paranoia and much of the unwarranted sense of self-importance that one finds much too often in anarchist circles. We are the righteous warriors surrounded on all sides by the forces of evil. We must protect ourselves from any possibility of contamination. And the character armor hardens undermining the joyful spirit that provides the courage necessary for the destruction of the world of domination.
I cannot stress this enough; The author is a cop
This is why our projects of attack must originate in and be carried out with joy and an expansive generosity of spirit.
I have read Sun Tzu cover to cover many times and I assure you that “joy and an expansive generosity of spirit” is not ever discussed as a relevant factor in combined arms warfare.
This reason is absolutely serious in its desire to destroy all that diminishes life, confining it to that which can be measured. And because it is so serious, it laughs.
It’s very hard to laugh when a police sniper has turned your lungs inside out and you’re choking to death on your own blood.
the situationist idea that revolution would be therapeutic
Oh they do know about the Situationists.
It seems clear to me that the situationists were pointing out that a real revolutionary rupture would break down the social constraints which underlie so much of what is considered “mental illness” and “emotional disturbance”
People who put mental illness in scare quotes are not comrades.
And many so-called revolutionaries, in conformity to such a practice, tend to become the emotionally crippled neurotics that they assume they are, searching for a revolutionary healing that will never come, because this assumed role is inherently self-perpetuating and, thus perpetuates the society that produces it.
The fascist hates mentally ill people. Water wet, Sky blue.
By accepting the idea (promoted heavily by progressive education and publicity) that the structures of oppression are essentially mindsets inside of ourselves, we become focused on our own presumed weakness, on how crippled we supposedly are.
Again, this person is yelling at liberals in a language liberals cannot understand.
Because the first two give very real and clear expression of the difference between psychoanalysis and social analysis, between the approach of therapy and that of revolt, I will examine them briefly.
Lol this person thinks that Freudian psychotherapy is representative of mental health care. This explains so much.
Viewing racism and sexism as essentially unconscious mindsets and the behavior these produce, the nature of which we are not always aware, we are drawn onto a practice of constant self-examination, constant self-doubt, which effectively disables us, particularly in our ability to interact with the other.
Oh yeah this makes so much sense they’re not just yelling at libs, they’re yelling at Freud. Fuck me.
If one has the bad fortune of being “white” and “male” (even if one consciously rejects all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels), then he is required to accept the judgment of “non-whites” and “females” about the significance, the “real” unconscious motivations of his actions.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No bro I’m not enmeshed in the patriarchy bro I’m the main character I’m special I consciously reject all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels by… being a violent, anti-social, untrustworthy menace who acts without consideration for the needs, wellbeing, and personhood of others in ways that are dangerous to everyone around me.
It’s lovely to see people tell on themselves like this. DAE woke Dei idpol removed leftists?
If, on the other hand, we view racism and sexism as expressions of the social ideological constructs of race and gender which have specific institutional foundations, a very different approach applies. The concept of race as it is currently understood here in North America has its origins in the institutions of black slavery and the genocide against the indigenous people of this continent. Once established by these institutions, it became rooted into all of the power structures on one level or another due to its usefulness to the ruling class, and was trickled down to the exploited classes as a means of separating them and keeping them fighting among themselves. Sexism has its origins in the institutions of property, marriage and the family. It is here that patriarchy and male dominance have their seat. Within this framework, gender is created as a social construct, and as with race, it is the continuing usefulness of this construct to the ruling class that has kept it in place in spite of the increasingly obvious absurdity of the institutions that are its basis. Thus, the destruction of racism and sexism must start with the explicitly revolutionary project of destroying the institutional frameworks which are the current basis for the constructs of race and gender. Such a project is not one of therapy, but of revolt. It will not be accomplished by shy, tiptoeing mice — nor by inquisitors — but by self-confident, indomitable rebels.
This is incredible. This person has gone to great lengths to extol the virtues of violent masculinity, then whines about how woke DEI feminists don’t trust them because they’re too stupid to see that akshually the problem is structural you silly women and minorities.
Thus, there can be no obligations, no debts, only choices of how to act.
Again, this person is a danger to everyone around them.
? Basing itself in the idea that we are crippled rather than chained, inherently weak rather than held down, it imposes an obligatory interdependence, a mutuality of incapacity, rather than a sharing of strengths and capabilities.
Fascist hero cult again. Contempt for weakness, which they have coded as being feminine and minority, exultation of heroism which they have identified with masculinity and whiteness.
It is the nature of weakness to submit. If we all assume our own weakness, our perpetual internal infection by these various social diseases, then we will continue to nurture a submissive way of interacting with the world, ever ready to admit guilt, to apologize, to back down from what we’ve said or done.
Oh look they just verbatim fucking said it for me. Fuck me. Also, note “social diseases”, which isn’t an inherently fascist expression but is very heavily tied to fascism and capitalism middle class moralism.
The rise of the civilization we live in with its institutions of domination is based on the division of labor, the process by which the activities necessary for living are transformed into specialized roles for the reproduction of society. Such specialization serves to undermine autonomy and reinforce authority because it takes certain tools — certain aspects of a complete individual — from the vast majority and places them in the hands of a few so-called experts.
I bet you five whole dollars this person could not produce an iron hammer from start to finish all by themselves. This is a bizarre thing to complain about. Specialization of labor is awesome. I can make an astonishing variety of useful shit and it sucks. Making everything you need to live by yourself is ruinously time consuming and leads to a miserable hardscrabble life.
One of the most fundamental specializations is that which created the role of the intellectual, the specialist in the use of intelligence.
Oh come the fuck on. This is Fascist manifesto. Hero cult, contempt for women, contempt for weakness, and now ranting about intellectuals? They’re gonna name drop Judeo-Bolshevism I just know it.
The specialization that creates the intellectual is in fact part of the process of stupefaction that the ruling order imposes on those who are ruled. For the intellectual, knowledge is not the qualitative capacity to understand, analyze and reason about one’s own experience or to make use of the strivings of others to achieve such an understanding. The knowledge of intellectuals is completely disconnected from wisdom, which is considered a quaint anachronism. Rather, it is the capacity for remembering unconnected facts, bits of information, that has come to be seen as “knowledge”. Only such a degradation of the conception of intelligence could allow people to talk of the possibility of “artificial intelligence” in relation to those information storage and retrieval units that we call computers.
Fascist shit. Disdaining “intellectual” knowledge, you know science and the accumulation of learning and shit, in favor of “wisdom”, which is to say the intuition of a bold heroic ubermensch.
If we understand that intellectualism is the degradation of intelligence, then we can recognize that the struggle against intellectualism does not consist of the refusal of the capacities of the mind, but rather of the refusal of a deforming specialization. Historically, radical movements have given many examples of this struggle in practice. Renzo Novatore was the son of a peasant who only attended school for six months. Yet he studied the works of Nietzsche, Stirner, Marx, Hegel, ancient philosophers, historians and poets, all of the anarchists writers and those involved in the various newly arising art and literature movements of his time. He was an active participant in anarchist debates on theory and practice as well as debates in radical art movements. And he did all of this in the context of an intense, active insurrectional practice. In a similar vein, Bartolemeo Vanzetti, who started working as an apprentice in early adolescence often for long hours, describes in his brief autobiography how he would spend a good part of his nights reading philosophy, history, radical theory and so on, in order to grasp these tools that the ruling class would deny to him. It was this thirst to grasp the tools of the mind that brought him to his anarchist perspective. In the late 19th century in Florida, cigar-makers forced their bosses to hire readers to read to them as they worked. These readers read the works of Bakunin, Marx and other radical theorists to the workers who would then discuss what was read. And in the early 20th century, radical hoboes and their friends would set up “hobo colleges” where a wide variety of speakers would give talks on social questions, philosophy, revolutionary theory and practice, even science or history, and the hoboes would discuss the questions. In each of these instances, we see the refusal of the exploited to let the tools of intelligence to be taken away from them. And as I see it, this is precisely the nature of a real struggle against intellectualism. It is not a glorification of ignorance, but a defiant refusal to be dispossessed of one’s capacity to learn, think and understand.
This is incoherent. Of course people can self-educate. What does this person think “intellecuals” are if not people who read a whole lot and then talk about what they’ve learned?
The inability of post-modern theorists to comprehend any totality can easily be traced to this deformation of intelligence.
Whining about post-modernism. It’s not quite shrieking about Judeo-Bolshevism but I’ll take it.
Because I sincerely want to end all domination and exploitation and to begin opening the possibilities for creating a world where there are neither exploited or exploiters, slaves or masters, I choose to grasp all of my intelligence passionately, using every mental weapon — along with the physical ones — to attack the present social order. I make no apologies for this, nor will I cater to those who out of laziness or ideological conception of the intellectual limits of the exploited classes refuse to use their intelligence. It is not just a revolutionary anarchist project that is at stake in this struggle; it is my completeness as an individual and the fullness of life that I desire.
Reddit ass incoherent dogshit.
The logic of submission imposes itself on the level of daily life offering thousands of reasons for resigning oneself to the domination of survival over life.
Cult of the Hero, contempt for weakness
the occupation of abandoned spaces, the sharing of free food, the publication of a bimonthly anarchist periodical, sabotage, pirate radio stations, demonstrations, attacks against the institutions of domination
Oh god they finally actually said something concrete and it is the most tepid fucking shit oh my god this is hilarious who the fuck thinks about pirate radio anymore? Bimonthly anarchist periodicals? Jesus christ fuck off you goddamn loser.
But the road of political ideology and programs is no more useful to the project of subversion. Because this project is the transformation of existence in a way that destroys all domination and exploitation, it is inherently anti-political.
Yeah, because fascists hate politics and what you’re advocating for is a fascist death cult. That… broadcasts pirate radio? Utterly incoherent.
eep and ever increasing knowledge of the other — a knowledge of their ideas, their aspirations, their desires, their capacities, their inclinations. It is a knowledge of similarities, yes, but more significantly, it is a knowledge of differences, because it is at the point of difference that real practical knowledge begins, the knowledge of whether and how one can carry out projects and create life with another. It is for this reason that among ourselves — as in our relationship to that which we are struggling against — it is necessary to avoid the practice of compromise and the constant search for common ground.
This is exactly why every anarchist org I’ve worked in has struggled to function at any level. Enough people always wanted to stick to their own bull-headed idea of the right way to do things and wouldn’t bend an inch or cede authority in any matter to anyone and as a result we couldn’t even arrange for coffee and fucking donuts at the meetings, let alone get anything done.
This is a fascist manifesto and the author is a cop. I have no further analysis.
It is fucking hilarious that this asshole goes on and on and on and on lionizing indidivual heroism and violence and contempt for society and everyone in it and then at the end they're like "uh, yeah, so live your revolution by making a zine".
Jesus fucking christ at least kill someone before writing this incredible drek. The whole time I thought they were going to end it with a call to go shoot up thr financial district or something and at the end it's like "You should revolutionarily share the donuts you dumpster-dived for in a revolutionary fashion that embodies the totality of revolution". Fucking christ. "Deeply unserious" is not sufficient we need, like, "Mariana Trenchily unserious for this".
Okay actually a little bit more analysis
The reason this person is a cop is that they have totally, utterly internalized the ideals of totally, utterly atomized hyper-individualism, severed from all community, culture, and context, that modern capitalism demands of us. This person has made themselves in to the perfect capitalist singleton, the perfect consumer. They exist only as an indvidual organism that eats and shits, having no relationships of any kind with anyone. The only things they are capable of are labor, consumption, and death. The perfect capitalist robot clothed in the language of anarchism fascism.
Thank you for such a comprehensive takedown, god knows how obvious this shit is once you point it out. It's also worth noting that the figure mentioned, Renzo Novatore, was literally a futurist lmfao.
The reason this person is a cop is that they have totally, utterly internalized the ideals of totally, utterly atomized hyper-individualism, severed from all community, culture, and context, that modern capitalism demands of us. This person has made themselves in to the perfect capitalist singleton, the perfect consumer. They exist only as an indvidual organism that eats and shits, having no relationships of any kind with anyone. The only things they are capable of are labor, consumption, and death. The perfect capitalist robot clothed in the language of anarchism fascism.
It's what happens when all you know is liberalism, and then you try and create an alternative political ideology which (usually unknowingly) uses the same building blocks as liberalism hoping that you'll find The One True Ideology To Overthrow Capitalism, but then - oh no - at the end of the process, you just have a slightly different form of liberalism. We should solve climate change by... purchasing - from the capitalists who are causing climate change - devices for our homes that have "organic" or "sustainable" or "net-zero" or whatever on the label. We should solve alienation by... rejecting the "weak" (which, by my classification, makes up most of society!) and only connecting with those who are also passionate and fiery and want things to change.
In essence: we must solve and overcome capitalism and liberalism's actual real-world manifestation, warts and all, by buying into the pleasant myths of capitalism and liberalism and bring those myths into reality. It's just that simple! No more crony capitalism - just idyllic free-market competition! And to accomplish this, we have to use the same philosophies and ideas that went on to create that crony capitalism. The problems are bad, but the causes are good! I feel like most capital-L Liberals have a viewpoint that can be summarized as "I was taught the propaganda about the system we live under in school, but now that I'm an adult, I see that the reality of the system is very different. The only solution is to make the propaganda real, and we do that by [insert flawed method here]." The most sheltered/delusional Liberals - usually the ones that want to achieve some level of political/economic office or power - instead think "Actually, the propaganda is real!"
You see the above Nietzchean bullshit so many times in manifestos by mass shooters and other "radicals" that it's just rather boring at this point. Oh, yet another alienated 20-40 year old white guy who believes that we have to rise up and act like hyperindividualist passionate revolutionaries to overthrow the weak woke/feminist/Jewish/Islamic/Chinese/etc capitalist regime that we all willingly tolerate and live under like emaciated brainwashed sheep? Wow, what's next, are you gonna say that all authority is inherently tyrannical but single out those "dictators" that the US State Department specifically hates? I can't wait to hear your opinion on cryptocurrency.
There are some (initially) uncomfortable truths in Marxism that liberals either have to digest or reject, but it provably produces an ideology which has generated revolutions against liberalism and capitalism, around the world and in many different situations.
I forget the quote and who said it, but there's a line out there about how merely declaring that you or your comrades are now free in a revolutionary way is totally meaningless, i.e "acting revolutionary-ly" - the material conditions must be changed in order for you to achieve actual freedom.
Or something similar? It might be a good idea to talk about the original poster and their motivation behind sharing this and whether any action needs to be taken.
Gonna be honest, I'm not gonna read the entire thing, but it seems like a purely adventurist, individualist text. "Be cool and special and important, be the main character, be better than everyone else. Be different from the mindless masses".
This thinking exists to make individuals feel better about themselves. It does not advance any cause or help anyone
Buckle the fuck in this is going to take a few posts. TLDR; This is a fascist manifesto. It's a fascist manifesto. Not "like a fascist manifesto" or "a fashy manifesto". This is a fascist manifesto.
This is fascist trash. It’s page after page of extolling the death cult of the hero that underlies the fascist worldview while shitting on women, anyone the author perceives as weak, and a materialist understanding of history and economics. The author is constantly telling on themselves as someone who is violent, untrustworthy, unsafe to be around, and who would be the ideal wrecker and assassin for the pigs.
This is the California Self-Helpification of revolution. This is a demand for meaning and purpose, not a call for change.
What does this even mean? We're all inextricably enmeshed in our cultures.
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energy. I'm special, I'm different, I don't deserve this, I'm not like the other girls, wake up sheeple, ecetera ecetera.
The social order is inevitably defined by the economic order but go on
This sounds like sigma grindset financial advice. You're holding yourself back, bro. Gorilla mindset, bro! Genetically different bro!
This is a complete abstraction of freedom. The chains that lie upon me are food scarcity, lack of medical care, patriarchal systems of violence, capitalist economics. I'm not looking for internal self-actualization, man. I can't move out of this state without dying because I'd lose my health insurance.
Making your first reference to Nietzche in a leftist call to action is a bad choice. Nietzche was a loser.
A "worthy adversary"? This is just fashy "Everyone is trained to be a hero" shit. This is all abstract and anti-material. Mistakes lead to getting tortured or caged. Failures lead to starvation for you and your dependents. Defeats leave you physically injured, physically deprived, physically dead. This might as well just be the Hakagure.
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Same energy. Be prepared for death at every moment so you will be ready to be a hero at every moment. This was the basic core of Imperial Japanese fascism. The guy who wrote it was a poser. I don't think he ever swung a sword in anger in his life. It's very funny that the author is demanding the same basic attitude towards action that the Samurai, a class of killers and thieves whose self description was "Servant" adhered to.
This is just re-phrasing Nietzche.
The author is very fixated on being an anti-social asshole that no one around them can like or trust. I find this to be a through-going thread in 21st century individualist anarchism. There's this contempt for the basic forms of courtesy, hospitality, trust, and reliability that make society possible in the smallest and most fundamental units. People go on and on about freedom from the basic behaviors that allow people to trust each other at all. That isn't liberation. That's dying alone in the forest because no one is willing to turn their back to you.
I’m pretty sure the author could replace “Logic of Submission” with “Slave Morality”, delete this entire document, and just recommend Nietzche. And this is, again, all an abstraction of freedom. We’re alienated and lonely and miserable because the actual physical layout of roads and cities isolates and alienates us and the day to day labor needed to pay for food is calculated to be crushingly exhausting and dispiriting. This isn’t an individual choice anyone is making.
This is really core to what’s going on here. That isn’t a decision. People don’t get to just decide things in abstract severed from the web of life and culture around them. As much as it seems to erk hyper-individualist anarchists “No man is an Island” and we really are all part of the culture and society that we are a part of.
This describes an emotionally immature person chasing that honeymoon energy from a new relationship.
Whenever individualists describe what this freedom means in practice it always ends up being “I have the unlimited right to be a huge dangerous untrustworthy asshole but also have people put up with me at the same time.”
Also, putting “Free Love” (a strange term to use in 2024) in front of bread and shelter is a choice that says a lot about the author’s economic position, social position, goals, and perception of the needs and limits of others. We figured that out when the hippies all turned out to be boomer reactionaries and “Free Love” was revealed to mean free from respect for others, free from consequences, free from reciprocity and mutual kindness.
People aren’t fucking because they’re poor, exhausted, depressed, and physically isolated from each other. There’s no “logic” in this, this is the basic logistics of fucking. People who are tired and sad don’t fuck.
There’s a thoroughgoing sub-text of contempt for the meek, the boring, the simple, the cowardly, and the satisfied. Very in keeping with Nietzsche's hatred of weakness, and in turn fascistic hatred of weakness. Those who are not heroes are unworthy of life.
Oh yeah literally in the next sentence jesus fuck just put a swastika in the header and save us all some time.
Yes you do actually have to be considerate of the feelings of others. The author is sprinting in to “No gods no bedtimes” territory by just… refusing to even consider compassion? I’m not sure what to call this. And given that they’re talking about this in relation to sexual desire with someone who is presumably a partner this really reads like a call to sexual violence.
Yup. There’s the fascist cult of heroism for heroism’s sake. Applying that ethos of heroism to sex is a rallying call for sexual violence
This is just fascism.
This is completely meaningless tosh. Being in a relationship, of any kind, with this person sounds like a serious problem both for the individual and the community.
Again, basal fascism.
Marx failed to consider
This person strikes me as deeply, deeply disappointed with life’s little meandering banalities, the simplicity of ordinary people, and so on. Having lived the experience they’re extolling, the experience of bipolar mania, it’s a fucking nightmare. There’s nothing true or authentic or real about chasing sensation and noise and excitement until you shatter and the shards of you injure everyone around you.
I really don’t know what this person expects to come of liberation, because I think they would not be satisfied with pancakes and cartoons sitting on the couch in your jammies on sunday morning. Again, fascistic cult of heroism for it’s own sake.
The author is describing toxic masculinity, and given the way they’ve been ranting they’re probably the sources of most of the comic mockery and various forms of one-upmanship as they try to live this ridiculous heroism thing they’ve got going. Frankly, they probably don’t have any friends because they’re dangerous and untrustworthy.
So you would say that you have achieved, how would we call this, a “Triumph of the Will?”
There is a really deep core of misanthropic hatred of regular old folks in this person’s thought.
This person is seriously dangerous and a threat to everyone around them. The way they’re obsessed with humiliation, with pride, shows that they are not proud, that they are rather deeply insecure and looking to prove their masculinity (I chose masculinity on purpose. Whatever their gender expression is masculinity is their god) and heroic power through violence directed at those they think are safe targets – The meek, the pathetic, the people they despise as holding them back. None of this screed thus far has been directed towards the people who hold the whip, who carry the sword, who sign the paycheck. It’s all ranting about the people standing on either side of us, our fellow workers, and identifying the sources of subjugation in these workers being too boring for the extremely cool and interesting
protagonistauthor.Being stuck in a room with this person for any amount of time would be agonizing.
There’s that “willpower” again, which is hilariously a protestant Christian myth used to justify hierarchical systems of oppression by assigning willpower to middle class strivers and denying willpower to the dirty morally bankrupt working poor. This person is a fascist.
If this person really wanted to understand what they’re fetishizing they’re more than welcome to take my bipolar disorder on a test drive for a month.
What does this even mean? I really want to know what they feel they’re being kept from doing. Do they really really want to start a rock band? Are they extremely intense about birding?
The next paragraph kinda-sorta identifies structural racism and patriarchy as systems of oppression but does so in a largely anti-materialist way that’s pretty useless for either analysis or action.
All this rhetoric is so empty. It’s completely vibe based and the vibe is “I don’t wanna!” in the most childish sense.
I thought they were going to start talking about the “Spectacle” of the Situationists but this is just whining about MCU slop. Which, don’t get me wrong, I love whining about MCU slop.
I really don’t understand what “individual freedom” they feel the lack but I suspect if they ever tried to define it it’d end up being something incredibly banal and vibes based. What does “against social reality in it’s totality” even mean? They’re really not identifying any existing structures or systems that so upsets them.
No shit. Most leftists don’t want to be part of a fascist death cult.
Fascistic contempt for weakness again. Calling yourself an anarchist then ranting about mutual aid is a choice.
Oh yeah here we go. More empty head idealistic tosh.
This person is really screaming at liberals in a way that is completely incomprehensible to liberals and marks them out as a huge threat and wrecker to anyone who actually does stuff.
Fascist hero cult. Take a drink.
Half right. The author fails to consider that most women would recognize the kind of will to power go fast and break things fascist “revolutionary” they idolize to be a threat.
I would love to know what this person’s education has been like. Like, what material did they read to come up with this?
Please stop writing and go throw yourself heroically at the swords of your oppressors this is getting really boring.
This person is clearly aware of a lot of core Left ideas and theories, but somehow interprets them from the position of a GTA protagonist. Like they’re describing the panoptican, self-surveillance, chilling effect, all this pretty basic Leftist theory, but it’s all “me me me” whining.
This is rubbish. Security culture is incredibly difficult to understand and hugely disruptive to actually apply in one’s life. Most people flat out do not understand how state police and intelligence services gather information.
The author is a cop. Affinity groups are fine for small ad-hoc actions. If you’re going to throw the French out of Algeria or the British out of Ireland you need air-tight, iron-clad hierarchical cell-structure units that allow coordinated action but can survive the annihilation of entire branches of the structure. Affinity groups are fine for spray painting and throwing bricks at bank windows. It’s not sufficient for direct combat against military and paramilitary forces and never has been. Idk how the fuck the author thinks anyone would trust them with high explosives or anti-aircraft missiles.
That’s cause you’re advocating for a fascist death cult, not a revolution. The author cares more about being the main character than they do about winning.
The author is, again, a cop. The cops could not ask for a better agent, spy, wrecker, or assassin than someone who believes these things and lives accordingly.
It is not at all, in any way, obvious and people with a great deal of training and experience fuck up and get their entire cell exterminated all the time. That’s a huge part of why security is so important; When someone inevitably gets drunk at a bar and starts talking, or trusts their partner and discusses trauma not knowing their partner is a cop, the cell needs to be compartmentalized so it can be cut free before the entire system is mapped and annihilated.
As an example of why this is absurd on it’s face go refresh yourself on how the Metropolitan Police completely infiltrated the London activist scene and had cops in significant places, including in fake relationships with activists, for decades.
It’s very telling that this person is concerned with arrest. Not torture, not extermination. Not your children being thrown in to the foster system, your elderly parents dying on the street, your allies being taken down when you narc on them because you’re a twit.. Mere arrest. That’s the scope of state violence that they see as a threat.
I have read Sun Tzu cover to cover many times and I assure you that “joy and an expansive generosity of spirit” is not ever discussed as a relevant factor in combined arms warfare.
It’s very hard to laugh when a police sniper has turned your lungs inside out and you’re choking to death on your own blood.
Oh they do know about the Situationists.
People who put mental illness in scare quotes are not comrades.
The fascist hates mentally ill people. Water wet, Sky blue.
Again, this person is yelling at liberals in a language liberals cannot understand.
Lol this person thinks that Freudian psychotherapy is representative of mental health care. This explains so much.
Oh yeah this makes so much sense they’re not just yelling at libs, they’re yelling at Freud. Fuck me.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No bro I’m not enmeshed in the patriarchy bro I’m the main character I’m special I consciously reject all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels by… being a violent, anti-social, untrustworthy menace who acts without consideration for the needs, wellbeing, and personhood of others in ways that are dangerous to everyone around me.
It’s lovely to see people tell on themselves like this. DAE woke Dei idpol removed leftists?
This is incredible. This person has gone to great lengths to extol the virtues of violent masculinity, then whines about how woke DEI feminists don’t trust them because they’re too stupid to see that akshually the problem is structural you silly women and minorities.
Again, this person is a danger to everyone around them.
Fascist hero cult again. Contempt for weakness, which they have coded as being feminine and minority, exultation of heroism which they have identified with masculinity and whiteness.
Oh look they just verbatim fucking said it for me. Fuck me. Also, note “social diseases”, which isn’t an inherently fascist expression but is very heavily tied to fascism and capitalism middle class moralism.
I bet you five whole dollars this person could not produce an iron hammer from start to finish all by themselves. This is a bizarre thing to complain about. Specialization of labor is awesome. I can make an astonishing variety of useful shit and it sucks. Making everything you need to live by yourself is ruinously time consuming and leads to a miserable hardscrabble life.
Oh come the fuck on. This is Fascist manifesto. Hero cult, contempt for women, contempt for weakness, and now ranting about intellectuals? They’re gonna name drop Judeo-Bolshevism I just know it.
Fascist shit. Disdaining “intellectual” knowledge, you know science and the accumulation of learning and shit, in favor of “wisdom”, which is to say the intuition of a bold heroic ubermensch.
This is incoherent. Of course people can self-educate. What does this person think “intellecuals” are if not people who read a whole lot and then talk about what they’ve learned?
Whining about post-modernism. It’s not quite shrieking about Judeo-Bolshevism but I’ll take it.
Reddit ass incoherent dogshit.
Cult of the Hero, contempt for weakness
Oh god they finally actually said something concrete and it is the most tepid fucking shit oh my god this is hilarious who the fuck thinks about pirate radio anymore? Bimonthly anarchist periodicals? Jesus christ fuck off you goddamn loser.
Yeah, because fascists hate politics and what you’re advocating for is a fascist death cult. That… broadcasts pirate radio? Utterly incoherent.
This is exactly why every anarchist org I’ve worked in has struggled to function at any level. Enough people always wanted to stick to their own bull-headed idea of the right way to do things and wouldn’t bend an inch or cede authority in any matter to anyone and as a result we couldn’t even arrange for coffee and fucking donuts at the meetings, let alone get anything done.
This is a fascist manifesto and the author is a cop. I have no further analysis.
Okay I do have further analysis
It is fucking hilarious that this asshole goes on and on and on and on lionizing indidivual heroism and violence and contempt for society and everyone in it and then at the end they're like "uh, yeah, so live your revolution by making a zine".
Jesus fucking christ at least kill someone before writing this incredible drek. The whole time I thought they were going to end it with a call to go shoot up thr financial district or something and at the end it's like "You should revolutionarily share the donuts you dumpster-dived for in a revolutionary fashion that embodies the totality of revolution". Fucking christ. "Deeply unserious" is not sufficient we need, like, "Mariana Trenchily unserious for this".
Okay actually a little bit more analysis
The reason this person is a cop is that they have totally, utterly internalized the ideals of totally, utterly atomized hyper-individualism, severed from all community, culture, and context, that modern capitalism demands of us. This person has made themselves in to the perfect capitalist singleton, the perfect consumer. They exist only as an indvidual organism that eats and shits, having no relationships of any kind with anyone. The only things they are capable of are labor, consumption, and death. The perfect capitalist robot clothed in the language of
anarchismfascism.Thank you for such a comprehensive takedown, god knows how obvious this shit is once you point it out. It's also worth noting that the figure mentioned, Renzo Novatore, was literally a futurist lmfao.
It's what happens when all you know is liberalism, and then you try and create an alternative political ideology which (usually unknowingly) uses the same building blocks as liberalism hoping that you'll find The One True Ideology To Overthrow Capitalism, but then - oh no - at the end of the process, you just have a slightly different form of liberalism. We should solve climate change by... purchasing - from the capitalists who are causing climate change - devices for our homes that have "organic" or "sustainable" or "net-zero" or whatever on the label. We should solve alienation by... rejecting the "weak" (which, by my classification, makes up most of society!) and only connecting with those who are also passionate and fiery and want things to change.
In essence: we must solve and overcome capitalism and liberalism's actual real-world manifestation, warts and all, by buying into the pleasant myths of capitalism and liberalism and bring those myths into reality. It's just that simple! No more crony capitalism - just idyllic free-market competition! And to accomplish this, we have to use the same philosophies and ideas that went on to create that crony capitalism. The problems are bad, but the causes are good! I feel like most capital-L Liberals have a viewpoint that can be summarized as "I was taught the propaganda about the system we live under in school, but now that I'm an adult, I see that the reality of the system is very different. The only solution is to make the propaganda real, and we do that by [insert flawed method here]." The most sheltered/delusional Liberals - usually the ones that want to achieve some level of political/economic office or power - instead think "Actually, the propaganda is real!"
You see the above Nietzchean bullshit so many times in manifestos by mass shooters and other "radicals" that it's just rather boring at this point. Oh, yet another alienated 20-40 year old white guy who believes that we have to rise up and act like hyperindividualist passionate revolutionaries to overthrow the weak woke/feminist/Jewish/Islamic/Chinese/etc capitalist regime that we all willingly tolerate and live under like emaciated brainwashed sheep? Wow, what's next, are you gonna say that all authority is inherently tyrannical but single out those "dictators" that the US State Department specifically hates? I can't wait to hear your opinion on cryptocurrency.
There are some (initially) uncomfortable truths in Marxism that liberals either have to digest or reject, but it provably produces an ideology which has generated revolutions against liberalism and capitalism, around the world and in many different situations.
I forget the quote and who said it, but there's a line out there about how merely declaring that you or your comrades are now free in a revolutionary way is totally meaningless, i.e "acting revolutionary-ly" - the material conditions must be changed in order for you to achieve actual freedom.
I would want to report this post for being Fascist shit, but now I don't because of your fantastic response.
Does Hexbear have an equivalent to The People's Court?
Or something similar? It might be a good idea to talk about the original poster and their motivation behind sharing this and whether any action needs to be taken.
I reported it but Franks response should be glorified in the annals of Hexbear history regardless.
Fuck that show fascists the door
I reported it
Having these guys running around is harmful bc it lets them spread their ideas and creates an unsafe environment for our marginalized comrades
Fucking glorious write up of this fascist dredge. A+.
This is literally just a fascist text. Thank you for the write up, comrade
Gonna be honest, I'm not gonna read the entire thing, but it seems like a purely adventurist, individualist text. "Be cool and special and important, be the main character, be better than everyone else. Be different from the mindless masses".
This thinking exists to make individuals feel better about themselves. It does not advance any cause or help anyone